1949, 80 min., b&w

Credits: Bob Roberts, producer; Abraham Polonsky, director; screenplay by Abraham Polonsky and Ira Wolfert

Cast: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez

Summary: John Garfield plays ambitious and crooked attorney Joe Morse who learns that the noted racketeer for whom he works intends to ingeniously bankrupt New York's "numbers banks". He tries to convince his brother to join the scheme and avoid the ruin of his own "bank". As Joe becomes more deeply involved, he finds himself wedged between the numbers racket and a new prosecutor's anti-crime campaign. Screenwriter and director Polonsky was a former attorney. The film has been placed in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry